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E. R. ROBBINS. POOL REGISTER.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 19

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDlYARD R. ROBBINS, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

POOL-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,081, dated February19, 1889.

Application filed October 15, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. ROBBINS, of Sacramento, Sacramento county,State of California, have invented an Improvement in and I herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame.

eating or registering the points made inthe connection therewith of byreference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Serial No. 288,142..(No model.)

game at one time. As it is only necessary to pocket eight balls to win agame, only eightare shown in each of the compartments, and

Q as each competitor has a number assigned to Fifteen-Ball-PoolRegisters and Advertisers;

him it is only necessary for the game-keeper to move the slidecorresponding to any nnm ber backward, so as to expose as many balls Myinvention relates to a device for indij as have been pocketed by thecompetitor, and

, the condition ot' the game is thus easily shown game known asfifteen-ball pool, and in 1 I an advertising device, all of which willbe more fully explained Figure 1 is a front view of my invention A is anexterior frame or case having the 5 horizontal guides B arranged acrossthe back, so that the sliding caps or covers C may at a glance.

The balls with which the game is played do not need to be removed fromthe receptacle in which they run from the pockets of the table, and thusconsiderable trouble in moving balls about. is avoided. The whole formsan attractive and convenient registering device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

travel in these guides and when closed they will cover the spacesbetween the guides, and when open they will expose these spaces.partition, D, is fixed vertically across the center of the case, so thatonly one-half is open to expose the slides and the other half may beused as an advertisingspace for any form of advertising-card or otherdevice, which is fixed across the front and supported above 1 the lineof travel of the sides, so that they may travel through the verticalpartition D and beneath the advertising-card or other device E.

1. A pool-registering device, consisting of a case having horizontalchannels with balls fixed permanently therein to one-half their length,slides traveling in guides, so as to con- 5 coal or expose the balls,and an inclosed or -Within the space covered by the convex;

highest number that might engage in i l l I I l i I uncovered chamberinto which the slides run when the balls are exposed, substantially asherein described.

2. A registering device for ball-pool, consisting of a case havingchannels, within half of which balls are fixed, slides traveling inguides over said channels, and having numbered disks fixed to them,substantially as herein described.

3. A case having a verticalcentral partition, horizontal channelsextending across the case and containing balls upon one side of thepartition, in combination with covers sliding in grooves and through thecentral partition, and having numbered disks or knobs upon them,substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

EDWARD R. ROBBINS.

Witnesses:

S. H. N OURSE, H. 0. LEE.

